Coastal states are increasingly urged to transform their sectoral and fragmented marine
governance regimes, and to implement integrated and holistic management approaches …

The land–sea interface is essential for understanding the interconnectedness of terrestrial
and marine ecosystems and provides ecosystem services to people. Although research has …

This paper introduces the need, in Italian countries, of a real integration of scientific
knowledge into coastal policy. Actually, in Italy, still exists a gap between Science and …

The evaluation of the development of a land-sea coordination system, including how to
measure success, remains a significant subject for exploration among researchers and …

Achievement of environmental management goals and objectives in coastal areas, including
how to measure success, remains a significant subject for discussion among scholars and …

Mitigation, adaptation, environmental protection, and sustainable development on the land
and related water bodies are being promoted in a fragmented way. Integrated Water …

Coastal regions are territorial social systems whose socio-economic and innovative
development is strongly influenced by the factor of coastalisation. The effect of movement to …

Coastal regions and river basins hold a great variety of geological, ecological, social and
economic roles mutually dependent and interacting. So, a global approach of these …

The wave climate is highly variable temporally and spatially, depending mainly on the
atmospheric conditions and on fetch extensions. Wave climate is one of the main causes of …

The management of the coastal region, its resources and stakeholder rights are treated in
isolation from the associated river basins in most of the countries across the world …